Acknowledgements
List of Maps and Illustrations
Introduction. Research Agenda
The uses of papal pardon
Negotiating apostasy. Apostates and evangelicals
Cloisters and learning
The ambitious common man
Storytelling strategies
Gaps in the narrative
Conclusion
The gates of upward social mobility. The social origin of the friars
Choosing the cloister
Learning in the cloister schools
Learning in the Parish schools
The protean literacy of the lesser clergy
Conclusion
From savage to civilized : village schools and student life. The interactions of students and locals
The dense network of Parish schools in the countryside
The presence of literate and "civilized" men in rural communities
Conclusion
Life outside the walls : clergymen on the road. The Parish church and cloister in the community
Masses of unbeneficed clergy
The unbeneficed as criminals
Parish incumbents and the unbeneficed
Ordained in Rome
Conclusion
The Heyday of popular culture : the shared time and space of laity and clergy. Defending male honor
Shared spaces of leisure
Carnival every day
Shared practices
Leisure and crime in the dark
Festivities and violence
Shared concepts of magic
Conclusion
Contested coexistence : lay-clerical disputes and their settlement. Enmities and the language of emotions
Clergymen as the mediators of the sacred
Clergymen as members of local communities
Honor and Hatred : the script of lay-clerical conflicts
The communal definition of criminals
Conclusion
Tales of a peasant revolt. Two competing myths of just war
Representations of violence : private and public perspectives
György Dózsa, the Martyr
Shifting identities in the Christian-Muslim contact zone. "Apostate" spouses
Christian "Bigamists"
Latin and orthodox Christian intermarriages
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.